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nunix

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Embarking: bolts are where?
« on: February 04, 2008, 03:59:00 pm »
Pondering starting out with a couple of marksdwarves with crossbows, but cannae find bolts anywhere on the embark gear list. Where they be?

EDIT: Whee! They're under Ammo. I didn't have enough points for them to show up.. wish that would be changed. -.-

[ February 04, 2008: Message edited by: nunix ]

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Bullion

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Re: Embarking: bolts are where?
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2008, 05:05:00 pm »
it's easiest just making wooden bolts when you get there, and training it on some chasm dwellers or something similar
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Re: Embarking: bolts are where?
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2008, 05:12:00 pm »
Or you turn on hunting and make bone bolts to replace the ones used to kill the creatures, and you get meat as a by product if you want it. If you start with 1 point in ambusher and 1 in crossbow i'm pretty sure dwarves start with a quiver and steel bolts.
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Re: Embarking: bolts are where?
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2008, 11:42:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by nunix:
<STRONG>EDIT: Whee! They're under Ammo. I didn't have enough points for them to show up.. wish that would be changed.</STRONG>

Bolts are dramatically overpriced at the moment anyway.  $1500 buys you 50 iron bolts.  Or, for about the same price, an anvil, a rock, charcoal and iron bars can become 200 iron bolts.

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Re: Embarking: bolts are where?
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2008, 01:05:00 am »
"Ambusher" has to be the highest civilian skill to get bolts & other hunting gear.
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Re: Embarking: bolts are where?
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2008, 01:09:00 am »
The general rule about hunters with crossbows, do the animals they kill give enough bones to offset the amount used in the process of killing them?
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Re: Embarking: bolts are where?
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2008, 03:44:00 am »
If your marksmen can hit a target twenty inches away 5 times out of 10 - they do. Otherwise - maybe, since 1 bone gives you like 20 bone bolts, and most animals have at least 4 of them.
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Re: Embarking: bolts are where?
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2008, 04:23:00 am »
alaern - 1 bone --> 5 bolts, depending on the stack you may get more bolts, eg musk oxen make 9 bones so I have my ambushers running around with 45 bolts in their backpack and thus rarely trying to bash the target  :D
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Re: Embarking: bolts are where?
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2008, 06:58:00 am »
Bringing along a pair of breeding animals and butchering the offspring they produce is a great way of having a practically unlimited supply of bone arrows.  I have about 30 bins full of them in my latest fort, with two hunters and three marksdwarves in training.
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